Re: [equinox-dev] The metadataRepositories extension point

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

On some places in the p2 API's there are comments regarding perhaps 
using URI's instead of URL's. I think that would be an excellent idea. A 
URI is not tied to the existence of a particular scheme so for a 
repository URI the scheme itself could be used to find the corresponding 
repository factory. We use this approach successfully in the spaces 
project where each space provider implements their own URI scheme.

At present, I need to use URL's that points to non-existent things so 
that I eventually end up in my factory implementation where I can peruse 
the URL for it to make sense. It works but it's not very clean (nor 
efficient).

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren


Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> I'm trying to understand how to use the 
> org.eclipse.equinox.p2.metadata.repository.metadataRepositories 
> extension point in order to register a factory for my new 
> IMetadataRepositoryFactory. From what I can see the current 
> implementation relies on a 'filter' called 'suffix' but I'm unable to 
> see the correlation between this filter and the URL that is used to 
> identify the repository.
>
> It would help me a great deal if someone could explain how I can make 
> sure that the MetadataRepositoryManager finds my new 
> IMetadataRepositoryFactory implementation.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas Hallgren
>
>
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